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Kimberlynn vs Kimora

American parents have registered 9,869 Kimoras since 1880, against 1,113 Kimberlynns. Kimora is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kimberlynn against Kimora, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kimberlynn Kimora

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Kimberlynn for 29 years and Kimora for 28 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kimberlynn Kimora
Total US births 1,1139,869
Most in one year 621,145
Babies in 2025 20201
Estimated living today 1,1009,800
Median age today 1315
Peak year 20132008
Best rank 2,769th girls291st girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th1,150th
First recorded 19581990
Girls / boys 1,113 / 09,869 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kimoras alive today are over 15; half the Kimberlynns are over 13. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kimberlynn and Kimora.